well that opens a whole can of worms....
cause that would mean, that these 7 million are not actually "burnt".......
Theoretically there could be a private key.
Practically this doesn't matter.
You know math?
Btw. even if there's a private key (not saying there is!), can you please elaborate how that can damage Novus?
credibility's already in the gutter....
Here, generate the address yourself
public static string GenerateAddress()
{
// VidzBurnAddrForTheNovusphereXXXXXX
// http://lenschulwitz.com/base58
var b58 = "475EC824925BA678D0A6959C3C663582584F8FD101416B3D32";
byte[] b58_bytes = new byte[b58.Length/2];
for (int i = 0; i < b58.Length; i += 2)
b58_bytes[i / 2] = byte.Parse(b58.Substring(i, 2), NumberStyles.HexNumber);
var bytes = new byte[160 / 8 + 1 + 4];
bytes[0] = 71; // version
Array.Copy(b58_bytes, 1, bytes, 1, b58_bytes.Length - 1); // take the ripe160 part
// update the hash checksum
using (var sha256 = new SHA256Managed())
{
var checksum = sha256.ComputeHash(sha256.ComputeHash(bytes.Take(160 / 8 + 1).ToArray()));
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
bytes[bytes.Length - 4 + i] = checksum[i];
}
return Base58Encode(bytes);
}